MARCH 



3646 



MARCH 



MARCH CALENDAR 



Birthdays 



1. William Dean Howells, 1837. 16. 

 Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1848. 17. 



2. De Witt Clinton, 1769. 18. 

 Pope Leo XIII, 1810. 



3. Alexander Graham 'Bell, 1847. - 19. 

 James Lane Allen, 1848. 



5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806. 20. 



6. Michelangelo, 1475. 21. 

 Philip H. Sheridan, 1831. 22. 



7. Luther Burbank, 1849. 



8. Richard, Earl Howe, 1726. 



9. Americus Vespucius, 1451. 23. 



10. Dudley Buck, 1839. _ 24. 



11. Torquato Tasso, 1544. 25. 



12. William Lyon Mackenzie, 1795. 26. 

 Sir John J. C. Abbott, 1821. 27. 

 Thomas B. Read, 1822. 28. 



13. Earl Grey, 1764. 29. 



14. Johann Strauss, 1804. 30. 



15. Andrew Jackson, 1767. 31. 



James Madison, 1751. 

 Roger B. Taney, 1777. 

 John C. Calhoun, 1782. 

 Grover Cleveland, 1837. 

 David Livingstone, 1813. 

 William Jennings Bryan, 1860. 

 Charles N. Eliot, 1834. 

 Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685. 

 Anthony Van Dyck, 1599. 

 Braxton Bragg, 1817. 

 Rosa Bonheur, 1822. 

 Schuyler Colfax, 1823. 

 Egerton Ryerson, 1803. 

 Joachim Murat, 1771. 

 W. E. H. Lecky, 1838. 

 Louis XVII of France, 1785. 

 Raphael, 1483. 

 John Tyler, 1790. 

 John Fiske, 1842. 

 Franz Joseph Haydn, 1732. 



Events 



1. Jay Treaty ratified, 1796. 

 Nebraska admitted to the Union, 1867. 



British blockade of German, Austrian and Turkish ports announced, 1915. 



2. Missouri Compromise passed, 1820. 

 Bitlis captured by Russians, 1916. 



3. Florida became a state, 1845. 



Tax official shot in Manitoba by Louis Riel, 1870. 



4. William Penn given grant of Pennsylvania, 1681. 



United States Constitution went into effect and Washington became first President, 



1789, though not inaugurated until April. 

 Vermont became a state, 1791. 



5. The Monitor delivered to Federal government, 1862. 



6. The massacre at the Alamo, 1836. 



7. Providence, R. I., founded, 1638. 



New Brunswick refused to become a member of Canadian Confederation, 1865. 

 Discovery of South Pole by Amundsen announced, 1912. 



8. Germany declared war on Portugal, 1916. 



9. Battle between Merrlma,c and Monitor, 1862. 



10. Beginning of Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915. 



11. Sir Alexander Mackenzie died, 1820. 



12. Grant made commander of all Federal armies, 1864. 



13. Alexander II of Russia assassinated, 1881. 



14. Whitney's cotton-gin patented, 1794. 



15. Julius Caesar assassinated, 44 B. c. 

 Maine became a state, 1820. 



Troops called out by Canadian government to resist Fenians, 1866. 



16. West Point Military Academy founded, 1802. 



17. British evacuated Boston, 1776. 



18. Bismarck resigned, 1890. 



One French and two English battleships sunk in Dardanelles, 1915. 



19. Prussian Order of the Iron Cross instituted, 1813. 



21. Robert F. Scott and companions died on return from South Pole, 1912. 

 Germany's last offensive in War of Nations began, 1918. 



22. Fortress of Przemysl captured by Russians, 1915. 



23. Patrick Henry's famous oration delivered, 1775. 



25. Slave trade abolished by British Parliament, 1807. 

 Second rebellion under Louis Riel. 1885. 



29. British North America Act passed by Parliament, 1867. 



30. First meeting of Congress under new Constitution, 1789. 



31. Last American troops left Cuba, 1909. 



For Study 



Bonheur, Rosa 



Buds 



Egg 



Germination 



Grafting 

 Grass 

 Kite 

 Mars 



Michelangelo's David 



Seed 



Sistine Madonna 



Wind 



